Award-Winning Journalist and Broadcaster

He began working for the BBC in 1972 and has been the presenter of Newsnight, University Challenge and many BBC documentaries on various subjects including the history of the British Empire, on the poet Wilfred Owen, on Victorian art, on Churchill’s funeral and on the effect of the First World War on Great Britain.

For three years during the mid-seventies, Jeremy was based in Northern Ireland, where he covered The Troubles for the BBC.

In 1977, he joined the Tonight programme, for which he was a roving reporter. This was followed by five years as a reporter on Panorama, where assignments took him frequently to Africa, the Americas and the Middle East.